FOUNDER SUCCESSES

The Lip Bar is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that exists to help change the way you think about beauty.

Thread Beauty Co. is an inclusive beauty brand designed with the Gen Z, BIPOC community in mind. At its core, Thread is about freely expressing creativity.

In 2022, Melissa closed a $6.7 million round led by Pendulum, providing access to a robust international community through Endeavor and other women entrepreneurs to focus on expanding The Lip Bar and Thread Beauty's distribution as well as incubating a third beauty brand.

Today, The Lip Bar and Thread Beauty are sold in over 1,000 stores across the country, including Target and Walmart. Butler has plans to scale and grow her business while continuing to disrupt the beauty industry and challenge societal norms of the past.